News Archive - 1999

Here are the most important news items we have published in 1999 on PHP.net.

The Mars Polar Lander and PHP

[03-Dec-1999]
It is scheduled to land on Mars at 12:14 PM Pacific time December 3 and PHP is helping
to bring the experience to the world. The web site
www.marspolarlander.com is powered by a combination of PHP, MySQL and Perl scripts.
There is an architecture
description here. This architecture document doesn't say very much about PHP other
than the fact that PHP is used as the Web scripting language, but it has an interesting
description of how they built a large scaleable system and it proves nicely that PHP
is up to the task of being part of such a large-scale deployment.

PHP 4.0 Beta 3 is out!

[17-Nov-1999]
Three months after PHP 4.0 Beta 2 was released, Beta 3 is finally here.
This release has a lot of changes, including a "pure" automake/libtool-based
build system, Java support and lots of other stuff.
All 4.0 beta users are encouraged to upgrade.

LinuxWorld Editors' Choice Awards

[31-Jul-1999]
PHP is a Finalist in the LinuxWorld Editors' Choice Awards to be presented
on Aug.11 in San Jose, CA. PHP is up against QT from Troll Tech in the
"Programming Library/Tools" category.

PHP 4.0 Beta 1 is out!

[23-Jul-1999]
The long awaited beta of the new generation of PHP is here.

PHP Tutorials at O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention

PHP 3.0.11 has been released!

[27-Jun-1999]
Hot on the heels of 3.0.10, along comes another release
to fix a few problems on Windows and some Unix platforms. If 3.0.10
worked for you, there's probably no need to upgrade. 3.0.10 featured
bug fixes, including the last of the fsockopen() and URL fopen()
problems, we hope. The dbm database abstraction layer had the mode
flag for dba_open() brought into line with dbm_open(), which means
"w" will not create a non-existent database (use "c" instead). The
documentation has also been moved into its own repository, and the
generated HTML documentation is included in the tar.gz instead of the
SGML source. For a more complete list of all of the changes, see the
ChangeLog.

PHP 3.0.9 has been released!

[06-June-1999]
More bug fixes, including many in the OCI8 module, and an important fix
for fgets() on socket connections. Also added support for PCRE
(Perl-compatible Regular Expressions library), t1lib (PostScript Type-1
fonts with GD), and mhash. For a more complete list of all of the
changes, see the ChangeLog.

PHP Related Books are Available

[12-May-1999]
Get ready for a wave of PHP related books to hit the shelves!
We don't know exactly how many there are going to be yet, but
two are already available.

Zend has been announced

[04-Jan-1999]Zend, a new optimized engine for PHP has been
announced. Visit the
Zend Web site for more
information!